History of the United States Government (Full Year) - Part 3 of 3 - Self-Paced
Nicole Trusky
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In this 12-week course, students will study and analyze various aspects of US government through historical documents and other primary sources. This is part 3 of a full year course.
Class experience
This is part three of a three part series covering the History of the United States Government. This is a unique approach to studying US government and is not your typical Civics course! Though we will briefly discuss different aspects of government, such as what "democracy" means or how power is divided up, we will not spend much time focusing on the inner workings of US government. Instead, we will determine what democracy means by analyzing Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," Frederick...
3 units//12 lessons//12 Weeks
Unit 1Foreign PolicyForeign Policy6 lessons6 WeeksWeek 1Lesson 1Lesson One-We will begin this week with a brief overview of foreign policy and will discuss under what circumstances student think the US should intervene in world events -Then we will look at a more contemporary president's foreign policy by reading Donald Trump's statement on bombing Syria in 2017 -George Washington's Neutrality lessonWeek 2Lesson 2Lesson Two-The Monroe Doctrine lesson -Manifest Destiny/Gast Painting lesson -Mark Twain and the Philippines lessonWeek 3Lesson 3Lesson Three-Woodrow Wilson's Neutrality lesson -FDR and WWII lessonWeek 4Lesson 4Lesson Four-Eleanor Roosevelt and the United Nations lesson -Truman Doctrine lessonWeek 5Lesson 5Lesson Five-Martin Luther King Jr's Opposition of Vietnam lesson -Kissinger, Nixon, and Allende lessonWeek 6Lesson 6Lesson Six-Bill Clinton and Genocide lesson -George W. Bush's War on Terror lessonUnit 2Civil LibertiesCivil Liberties5 lessons5 WeeksWeek 7Lesson 7Lesson Seven-We will begin this week by defining civil liberties and discussing whether there are times our liberties should be restricted -We will then look at a more contemporary president's take on restricting liberties by reading President Obama's remarks regarding gun violence after the Aurora movie theatre shooting -Declaring Independence lesson -Bill of Rights lessonWeek 8Lesson 8Lesson Eight-John Adams and Restricting Freedom of Press lesson -Abraham Lincoln and Habeas Corpus lessonWeek 9Lesson 9Lesson Nine-Carrie Nation's Temperance Activism lesson -Herbert Hoover's Bonus Army lesson -Executive Order 9066 lessonWeek 10Lesson 10Lesson Ten-McCarthyism and Paul Robeson lesson -COINTELPRO lessonWeek 11Lesson 11Lesson Eleven-Black Panther Party and Reparations lesson -Patriot Act lessonUnit 3ReviewReview1 lesson1 WeekWeek 12Lesson 12Lesson Twelve-This week we will do a review of the entire course by looking back at excerpts from all three parts and making connections between the themes. Even if a learner has not taken all three parts, they will still be able to participate in this week's class!
When students complete this class, they should be able to look at any historic document and "source" it. They will be able to determine who the author is, what the author's authority is, and how reliable the resource is. They will know what primary and secondary sources are. They will be able to relate the historical sources we read to the aspect of United States government that we are studying. They will be able to related historical sources to modern day issues. They will understand certain aspects of United States government and how those aspects changed throughout the country's history.
My Masters degree is in American Studies and I spent a great deal of my graduate studies focusing on the Civil War, Westward Expansion, and the Industrial Revolution. I have been teaching this course in person to homeschoolers for a year and have been teaching History on Outschool for almost as long. I am constantly reading new works from prominent historians and I attend professional development courses each summer through The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, which helps me keep up to date on historical scholarship.
Homework Offered
Each week, students will have work to do that would have been considered "in class" work if this were a live class. Instead, this could all be considered homework and students should expect there to be work to do each week. All work will be given in pdf form so that students can print the worksheets or they can upload the pdf to kamiapp.com and type directly onto the pdf.1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Students will be assessed through the work that they complete and turn in. I will respond to assignments that are turned in.Grades Offered
Students will be given pdfs each week that contain the in-class work and homework. These pdfs need to be printed or if the student prefers to type answers, pdfs can be uploaded to the Kami App website and students can type directly onto the pdfs.
As with any US History course, we will be covering topics like death, war, racism, slavery, and sexism. I will not shy away from these topics, but will help the students understand that though racism, slavery, sexism, etc. are part of the fabric of American History, they are not acceptable by our standards today.
I use almost entirely primary sources as the curriculum for my History courses. Students will be reading primary sources during class and working to analyze those primary sources.
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Hi everyone! I'm Nicole Trusky, a homeschooling mom of three and lover of all things history and pop culture! I have a Master in Humanities with a concentration in American Studies and have been studying history for as long as I can remember (my...
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